Thomas Carlyle Quote

Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man?

Sartor Resartur: On Heroes, Hero-workship an the Heroic in History (ed. 1926)

Friend, hast thou considered the rugged, all-nourishing earth, as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her...

Friend, hast thou considered the rugged, all-nourishing earth, as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her...

Friend, hast thou considered the rugged, all-nourishing earth, as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her...

Friend, hast thou considered the rugged, all-nourishing earth, as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her...